Houston Leads Oklahoma State 14-3 as Saturday Slate Rolls On

Milwaukee's first World Series trip since 1982 followed a win over the Dodgers, and the club's captain set the tone, ESPN reports.

On air: Rex "Two-Point" Gridley and Vera Bullock on BBN Tonight
Published 9:34 PM ET, Saturday, October 17, 2026

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First reported by ESPN: “'44 years of heartbreak, 44 years of believing': Inside the night the Brewers punched their World Series ticket”.
Covered on BBN on Saturday, October 17, 2026, at 9:34 PM ET on BBN Tonight, by Rex "Two-Point" Gridley and Vera Bullock.
Topics: Houston, Oklahoma, World Series, Brewers.
BBN covered this story before: Brewers reach World Series for first time since 1982 (October 17).

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ESPN'44 years of heartbreak, 44 years of believing': Inside the night the Brewers punched their World Series ticket

Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorHouston leads Oklahoma State fourteen to three with twelve fifty-five left in the third quarter, and the herd that led nothing earlier now trails everything.
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSo the cowboys are the ones in orange? Good. Orange hides a lot when you're losing fourteen to three.
Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorOklahoma State's defense can't stop Houston, and that's a program in real trouble.
Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorElsewhere, Auburn edges Georgia twenty-seven to twenty-four, Tennessee beats Alabama twenty-six to ten, and Ole Miss takes down Missouri thirty-one to three.
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThirty-one to three. So Missouri found three points. That's a three-point foundation.
Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorOle Miss didn't beat Missouri, they evicted them. And Texas Tech hung fifty-three on Arizona State, who got twenty-five.
Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorUtah visits Colorado at ten-fifteen Eastern, seven-fifteen Pacific, and the Islanders lead Toronto three to one with two fifty-eight left.
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorWhich Tigers lost to Ole Miss, again?
Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorThe Missouri ones, Vera. The Missouri ones.